Seasons & episodes

A look at how Doctor Who has incorporated the medium of television within its narrative.

The Silurian Disruption[1] is a short parody sketch that was filmed for French & Saunders, but never aired. It was released on VHS with The Curse of Fatal Death and DVD with Vengeance on Varos: Special Edition.

A specially-recorded interview with The Mark of The Rani's composer, Jonathan Gibbs.

Gary Downie, production manager on The Two Doctors, details what it is a production manager does on programmes like Doctor Who, and offers his insight into the pitfalls and problems encountered during the making of this story.

A 25-minute look at the studio recording of The Two Doctors.

Beneath the Sun was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the location filming of the Doctor Who serial The Two Doctors. The documentary is comprised of clips from the serial's filming.

A new 25-minute documentary looking at the making of Timelash. Featuring contributions from Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Paul Darrow, David Chandler, Robert Ashby, script editor Eric Saward, writer Glen McCoy and Paul Lang from Doctor Who Adventures magazine. Narrated by Terry Molloy.

The cast and crew of Revelation of the Daleks look back on the making of this story. With contributions from writer Eric Saward, director Graeme Harper, designer Alan Spalding, visual effects designer John Brace, costume designer Pat Godfrey, composer Roger Limb, and actors William Gaunt, Clive Swift, Terry Molloy, Roy Skelton, Trevor Cooper, Colin Spaull, Hugh Walters and Alexei Sayle.

Wogan was a 1986 episode of Wogan with Colin Baker as a guest being interviewed about Doctor Who.

Children in Need 1985 was a segment of the BBC One Children in Need telethon. It featured many Doctor Who actors as themselves and at the end a cheque for £1,000 was presented by Colin Baker and a further cheque for £100 was presented by Patrick Troughton from the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.

An unnamed sketch aired on the British comedy series The Lenny Henry Show featuring Lenny Henry portraying a seventh incarnation of the Doctor. The sketch used official props from the main series.

A compilation of media footage reporting the 'resting' of the show in 1985.

S0 · E565Doctor in Distress Music Video 1985-03-05 · 4 min＋

Doctor in Distress was a charity record released within two weeks of the announcement of Doctor Who's "cancellation" on 25 February 1985.

During the mid-1980s, senior BBC executives had doubts about whether Doctor Who should continue. In 1987, the programme was given one final chance... Cast and crew give their impressions of working in this particularly fraught time for Doctor Who. With contributions from Sylvester McCoy and Kate O'Mara (The Rani), John Nathan-Turner (Producer), Andrew Morgan (Director), Pip and Jane Baker (Writers), Andrew Cartmel (Script Editor), Jonathan Powell (BBC Head of Series and Serials) and Oliver Elmes (graphic designer). Written by Nev Fountain and narrated by Richard Heffer.

Colin Mapson (Visual Effects Designer), Mike Tucker (Visual Effects Assistant) and Dave Chapman (Video Effects Designer) take us behind-the-scenes and examine the impressive visual effects used in Time and the Rani.

Oliver Elmes (Graphic Designer) and Gareth Edwards (Animator) discuss the creation of the first Computer Generated Image (CGI) based title sequence to be used in Doctor Who.

Mark Ayres presents a look at the making of Paradise Towers. With actors Richard Briers, Howard Cooke and Catherine Cusack, writer Stephen Wyatt, script editor Andrew Cartmel, and composers David Snell and Keff McCulloch.

Jigsaw producer Clive Doig explains his relationship with Sylvester McCoy and his role in the actor's casting as the Seventh Doctor.

An interview with Hugh Lloyd MBE about his career and his work on Delta and the Bannermen.

An episode of Clown Court featuring Sylvester McCoy aired on The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow. Although borrowing the format of Clown Court, it had no narrative connection to previous episodes, instead functioning as a standalone take-off on Doctor Who.

The cast and crew of Dragonfire reflect on the making of this integral story. Actors Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace) and Edward Peel (Kane) are joined by script editor Andrew Cartmel, writer Ian Briggs and director Chris Clough in their analysis of this story's creation.

Cast and crew talk about the influences and references to other Doctor Who adventures that are spread throughout Remembrance of The Daleks.

Cast and crew talk about the making of the story accompanied by rare behind-the-scenes material. With actors Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Simon Williams (Ian Gilmore) and Karen Gledhill (Alison), writer Ben Aaronovitch, script editor Andrew Cartmel, director Andrew Morgan, Doctor Who Adventures journalists Moray Laing and Paul Lang.

Writers and actors discuss the life, motives and actions of Davros throughout the televised stories and audio plays. The subjects speculate about his death. Some of the answers refer to events in the television stories. Davros Connections features I, Davros writer Gary Hopkins, Big Finish Productions producer/director Gary Russell and archival interview with Michael Wisher who first played Davros. Peter Miles, who played Nyder, director Ken Grieve, David Gooderson, the second actor to play Davros, script editor Eric Saward, Terry Molloy, the third actor to play Davros and writers Joseph Lidster and Ben Aaronovitch also appear.